ESC: Mojo de Caña Association

Association Mojo de Caña has been founded in 2001, in Santa Brigida municipality (Gran Canaria Island,Spain). Currently, we have several offices in Spain, with the plans of going international (Italy and Serbia). Our offices are divided in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria HQ, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife Island),Breña Alta ( La Palma Island ) Madrid and Cordoba. Association is made up of a multidisciplinary team of almost 50 workers that has Directors from different areas, Community Educators, Social Workers, Psychologists, Administrators, Architects, Computer Scientists, Graduates in Labor Relations, Economists, Lawyers, Technicians in project management with the main objective of generating projects that contribute to improving the quality of life of people in general. The Board of Directors in charge of establishing the lines of action and the bureaucratic work of the entity is made up of 9 people, President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and 5 members, who altruistically and voluntarily take charge of this complicated work, dedicating their free time and a lot of sacrifice for the entity to consolidate and all thanks to the firm commitment that unites them to the entity.We are committed to the society in which we live and to transform it, we dedicate all our time, knowledge and experience to materialize that change and provide the necessary resources to all those who want to actively contribute to society. All the benefits that we obtain from the services provided are re-invested in new projects and in consolidating the workforce, generating stable employment and the continuity of our programs and projects. Mission Provide services through activities, initiatives, projects and programs in the field of childhood and youth, social services, human rights, education in values, environmental education, socioeconomic integration, socio-sanitary intervention, performing arts, interculturality, citizen participation, training and exchanges national and international, and cultural heritage.We are consolidated as an entity that provides services to Youth, an entity of Volunteering, and a collaborating entity. In the provision of Social Services of the Government of the Canary Islands. Currently, Mojo de Caña manages, organizes, produces and promotes countless activities of all kinds: artistic and socio-cultural shows, circus, performing arts and street festivals, leisure and free time workshops, activities and projects with schoolchildren, education camps. environmental, seminars, training sessions and coexistence, and social programs and projects aimed at families, children, and youth at risk of social exclusion. With our projects you collaborate with a non-profit organization, which promotes employment, entrepreneurship, equality, human rights, education in values ​​and provides services in the field of youth, culture, leisure and free time and social services to help to improve the quality of life of people in general. When it comes to our participation in Youth in Action/Erasmus +, we have started in 2011, and since then it has become one of our main priorities, since it reflects and summons up are goals, objectives and aims that are coinciding with the goals of Erasmus + program/ESC volunteering. Since 2011, we have had more than 60 host volunteers, 110 coordinating volunteers, and more than 150 sending volunteers. When it comes to youth exchanges and national and international TC, we have participated and coordinated more than 45 exchanges and more than 40 TC ( till spring 2021). Our social project Embarriate provides us an opportunity to be in daily contact with more than 250 youngsters, in collaborations with Social Services in several islands. Besides, we work with outdoor education and community development via several socio-environmental projects, fostering participation in more than 10 municipalities in 4 different islands. Using art, theatre, digital media and arts we have implemented festivals and conferences on a regional level focused on equity, feminism and gender equality, gender violence etc. The Canary Islands have the highest rate of youth unemployment in the UE more than ( around 50% are unemployed and/or out of the educational system. That´s why we give such high importance to these kinds of projects since we aspire to provide our youth with experiential learning for soft skills in order to convert them into active and responsible citizens, open to diversity with own initiatives. https://www.xn--mojodecaa-s6a.org/portaldetransparencia